Israel
An Intentional Detour
In my last few blogs, I wrote of my hope that The Promise of Israel can help foster a new ...
Ideas Do Matter
In my previous blog, I wrote that I hoped that The Promise of Israel might give new shape and direction to the ...
The Nation-State
People sometimes ask: What would you like your book to accomplish? In this case, my answer is easy: I would be thrilled ...
Shofar? So Good, Y’all!
Sometimes, in a small Southern town, you might not hear the call of the shofar outside of High Holy Day ...
“Wow! I Didn’t Know I Live in Such a Progressive Country!”
Having traveled frequently to Israel for the last decade, I have many amusing stories of security interviews before boarding flights ...
The Dangers of Nice
When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...
My First “Freedom Ride”
A couple of years ago I learned about a new front in the internal Israeli struggle over religious freedom: gender ...
Five Comix about Israel Worth Reading
As a public speaker and comic book educator, people often ask me to recommend comic books or graphic novels of ...
Graphic Memoir: The Legacy of Harvey Pekar
JT Waldman co-authored and illustrated the new graphic novel Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me with writer and frequent ...
My Pekar Years
I met Harvey Pekar in 2005. On a whim, I gave him a copy of my book, and he really liked ...
Albert Einstein: A Highly Committed Jew
Albert Einstein may have been the most famous Jew of the 20th century. His biographer Walter Isaacson described that “when he ...
Reform Women Rabbis Being Heard
In the midst of much activity in Israel in the ongoing push to ensure that women are not silenced or ...